[Avodah] B'shalach "To Live At All is Miracle Enough" Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems

[Cantor Wolberg via Avodah]

B’shalach has many miracles which we almost take for granted.
During the Israeli War of Liberation, an elderly man rushed into
a Synagogue in Jerusalem and pleaded with the congregants:
“Brothers we can no longer rely upon any miracles. Let us all
recite Tehillim.” 
This anecdote is telling. Our exposure to so many miracles 
causes us to think it is normal and natural.
The Sages of old instituted the recitation of the b’racha upon 
beholding the maabrot hayam, the beach-head of the Red Sea
which was the scene of the Exodus.
By reciting the b’racha upon seeing the place of k’riat yam suf,
we are reminded of the supernatural mode of our existence and
survival.

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. 
David Ben-Gurion 

B'SHALACH contains a single mitzva of the 613, 
the prohibition of leaving one's Shabbat boundary — T'CHUM SHABBAT. 
(T'chum's membership in the family of Taryag, however, is disputed).